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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824137503321

Titolo

Structures of focus and grammatical relations / / edited by Jorunn Hetland and Valéria Molnár

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : , : M. Niemeyer, , 2003

ISBN

3-11-094948-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 477

Altri autori (Persone)

HetlandJorunn

MolnárValéria

Disciplina

269

Soggetti

Focus (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contrast, the fall-rise accent, and Information Focus / Hetland, Jorunn -- Iconic and categorical focus systems in Scandinavian / Heltoft, Lars -- Are Finnish null subjects null topics? / Järventausta, Marja -- Discourse configurationality in Finnish and Hungarian / Molnár, Valéria / Järventausta, Marja -- The relation between morphological case, syntactic functions and thematic roles in Icelandic: A frequency analysis / Barödal, Johanna -- Passive as activity aspect. On the relation between aspectuality and passive: A comparative study of German and Swedish / Landén, Barbro / Molnár, Valéria -- The passive in Icelandic - compared to Mainland Scandinavian / Barðdal, Johanna / Molnár, Valéria -- Authors' addresses

Sommario/riassunto

The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typological characterisation of languages as to discourse configurationality. The investigation of grammatical relations includes the interplay between syntactic functions, morphological case and thematic structure, and the study of the functional and formal complexity of passive in Germanic languages.